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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO Business Intelligence

The rural lifestyle retailer, with more than 2,200 stores across the US, caters to the needs of rural residents with a wide variety of products on its shelves. The use of AI in the retail sector is in the experimental stage, and many retailers have gotten only as far as using AI-powered chatbots on websites, Kodali adds.

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How technology is enabling Melbourne Airport’s growth

CIO Business Intelligence

While Melbourne Airport employs approximately 500, there could be up to 20,000 people working at the airport on any given day working for other stakeholders including airlines, retailers, Border Force, and the Australian Federal Police. It’s really about the critical nature of the operation,” he adds.

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What are the emerging B2B hotspots for telcos?

TM Forum

Some industry-specific service solutions are emerging as current sources of new revenues for CSPs, with healthcare, smart city, automotive, retail and utilities all experiencing growth. Examples in industries such as retail are interesting, as CSPs have been providing services to this market for decades. Current revenue sources.

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10 edge computing innovators to keep an eye on in 2023

Dataconomy

Adaptiv Networks Adaptiv Networks , a smart business connectivity provider, has introduced its cloud-managed SD-WAN service, known as Adaptiv Enterprise Connect, to the market. Founded in 2002, the Quebec-based company, which is privately held, is setting its sights on a few key verticals, including hospitality, healthcare, and retail.

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SASE Reality Check: Security and SD-WAN Integration Journey

CIO Business Intelligence

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. When networking and network security requirements are managed by separate IT teams independently and in parallel, do you achieve the best architecture for digital transformation?

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

Fortunately, the move to 5G standalone architectures will require a great deal less infrastructure investment and more IT spending, which on the whole is less extensive. The significance of this change is currently being felt in some of the work we are doing with CSPs collaborating in TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) groups.

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO Business Intelligence

Some, like the approximately 100 outlets operated by farm and agriculture supply retailer Peavey Mart, had redundant access to other internet providers already in place. As a result, once the stores were impacted by the outage, they automatically failed over to their secondary ISPs through our SD-WAN enabled infrastructure.”.

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